A guide to first-party vintage SLR lenses. View it live at https://aperturepedia.com
With the increased interest in vintage lenses due to their easy adaptability with modern mirrorless cameras, Aperturepedia is designed to serve as a central hub for data on vintage camera lenses.
- Lens must designed for full-frame film SLR cameras. (rangefinder & medium format lenses may be added after 35mm lens data is complete)
- Lenses must be manufactured or branded by the camera manufacturer (Minolta, Nikon, etc). No 3rd party lenses for now.
- Only manual focus lenses will be included for now due to their greater adaptability to modern mirrorless cameras.
- Lenses must have been made in the 20th century (aka "vintage").
- Lens systems are generally prioritized by popularity and availability of reference data.